Joe Biden persists and signs
US President Joe Biden said on Monday he was not retracting comments suggesting he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to leave. “I do not withdraw them and I do not apologize,” he said, recalling that these remarks expressed his “moral indignation about the way Putin is acting”. In a speech Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Biden was momentarily off script, exclaiming, “For the love of God, this man can’t stay in power!” “. However, he said on Monday that “nobody believes” that “I was talking about overthrowing Putin”. The American president insisted that his Russian counterpart “should not stay in power, in the same way that the bad guys should not continue to do bad things. »
‘Encouraging’ Ukrainian refugees to go somewhere other than Poland
Refugees from Ukraine must be “encouraged” to go to countries that are less under pressure than Poland, European Commissioner Ylva Johansson said in Brussels. This country bordering Ukraine has so far hosted 1.5 million refugees out of a total of 3.8 million since the start of the conflict, according to the European Commission. Mentioning that most refugees “want to stay in Poland,” Ms.me Johansson added “that it is important that Member States [de l’Union européenne (UE)] actively inform these refugees that they may have the same rights [dans les autres États]. According to the Commission, 40,000 refugees are pouring into EU territory every day, which is still far from the peak of 200,000 reached earlier in the conflict.
the Novaya Gazeta suspend its activities
The Russian Independent Newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a pillar of investigative journalism, announced on Monday that it was suspending publication until the end of the intervention in Ukraine. The media claimed to have “no other solution in the face of military censorship”, after receiving a second warning from the Federal Communications Supervisory Service for a breach of a law concerning “foreign agents”. The newspaper is renowned for its investigations into corruption within the Russian regime. Its editor, Dmitry Muratov, has also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. “For us, and I know it, for you, this is a terrible and painful decision”, he he lamented in a letter to the readership.
“Evidence” regarding prohibited weapons
Ukraine claims to have “evidence” of the use of cluster bombs by the Russian army in the south of its territory. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said that these weapons, the use of which is prohibited by international conventions, were allegedly dropped by the Russians in the Odessa and Kherson regions. “fragments” [des armes] and a “soil analysis” would have allowed these teams to reach such conclusions. International NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned the use of these weapons by the Russian army earlier in the month. They contain several small bombs that turn into anti-personnel mines and explode at the slightest touch.
With Agence France Presse